Sean Nero

The Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment is stand­ing by its de­ci­sion to with­hold all fur­ther sup­port of leg­is­la­tion re­quir­ing a spe­cial ma­jor­i­ty that is brought to the Par­lia­ment by the Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar-led Gov­ern­ment, fol­low­ing the Sec­tion 34 furore, par­ty vice-chair­man Camille Robin­son-Reg­is has said. She said af­ter Gov­ern­ment be­trayed the peo­ple of T&T with the pre­ma­ture procla­ma­tion of the Ad­min­is­tra­tion of Jus­tice (In­dictable Pro­ceed­ings) Act the PNM sim­ply had no oth­er choice.

Robin­son-Reg­is said the PNM in op­po­si­tion sup­port­ed the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) gov­ern­ment to bring the seat of the Caribbean Court of Jus­tice to T&T. How­ev­er, when the time came for it to be leg­is­lat­ed for this coun­try un­der the PNM, the UNC op­po­si­tion re­fused to sup­port it.

"...The An­ti-Gang leg­is­la­tion, we gave our sup­port. It did not work, not be­cause of the op­po­si­tion, but they blamed the op­po­si­tion not work­ing. The first bud­get of this Gov­ern­ment we sup­port­ed it whole­heart­ed­ly, be­cause we felt there were mea­sures in the bud­get for the good of the peo­ple of T&T, but con­sis­tent­ly they have let down the peo­ple of T&T. They are whol­ly in­com­pe­tent and un­trust­wor­thy," she said.

With re­spect to Vol­ney's al­leged breach of Par­lia­men­tary code of con­duct and calls for his re­moval as a Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment, Robin­son-Reg­is said on­ly Par­lia­ment could en­force such ac­tion and that the PNM had not dis­cussed the mat­ter. "I don't think that is for the PNM to do.

We main­tain that the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al should be re­moved. It is much eas­i­er to re­move a Sen­a­tor if the Prime Min­is­ter felt that the Sen­a­tor has done wrong, but the Prime Min­is­ter has cer­tain­ly en­veloped the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al and has ap­par­ent­ly no in­ten­tions of re­mov­ing him. We feel strong­ly that the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al is cul­pa­ble in this mat­ter," she said.